Review of The Shape of Water (2017) by Whiskeystories — 04 Feb 2018
The Shape of Water is an absolutely delightful and charming fairy tale with great contemporary messages. Everything about it is perfect (gorgeous cinematography, wonderful soundtrack and score, fantastic performances etc.
) except for one completely subjective aspect: the love story. For me it did not really work. Once again, as he usually does, Guillermo got a little caught up in the fluff of romance. I think he was more concerned with the aesthetics and the idea of it than its believability.
No matter how hard I tried to be open-minded about it and go along with its enchanting presentation, I just found it tonaly creepy and not fully fleshed out (also oddly exploitative from Elisa's character towards the creature).
Unfortunately as the romance is a huge part of the film it soured the experience a bit, but nevertheless I still enjoyed and kinda loved this beautiful film.
This review of The Shape of Water (2017) was written by Whiskeystories on 04 Feb 2018.
The Shape of Water has generally received very positive reviews.
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